Call for papers - Artificial intelligence and palliative care

Matthew Allsop, PhD, CPsychol, University of Leeds, UK

Dr Matthew Allsop is an Associate Professor of Palliative Care in the School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK. His research focuses on the development and evaluation of palliative care service provision, including the design and evaluation of technology-based interventions. Dr Allsop’s research includes multiple nationally influential studies on the timing of hospice provision before death in the UK and determining the optimal role of digital technologies to support advance care planning in palliative care populations. Dr Allsop’s international health research has involved leading multiple initiatives to design and evaluate digital technology approaches to augment existing palliative care provision in low- and middle-income country settings. His work incorporates principles of equitable partnership working and embedding community engagement and involvement practices into the design, conduct and evaluation of research projects to ensure activities reflect and address local and context-specific challenges. 

Karl Arthur Lorenz, MD, MSHS, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Dr Karl Lorenz is Professor of Medicine at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Previously, he was Professor at UCLA and adjunct faculty at the RAND Corporation in Los Angeles, CA. Throughout his career, he served as a palliative care and general internal medicine physician with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As a member of VA’s leadership team, he contributes to the growth of palliative care across VA’s 150+ hospitals and health systems as the Co-Director of the national Quality Improvement Resource Center (QuIRC). His research has encompassed quality measurement and improvement, implementation science, evidence synthesis, symptom management, and global health. 

Christoph Ostgath, Dr med, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany 

Prof Dr Christoph Ostgathe was trained as an anesthesiologist, pain and palliative care specialist. In 2010 he was appointed as Professor for Palliative Medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. His clinic comprises an acute palliative care unit, a palliative care hospital support team and an outpatient service. His research is mainly dedicated to issues of Screening for Palliative Care Needs, Outcome Assessment and Health Services Research, currently focusing e.g. on Intentional Sedation. His second focus is the integration of innovative medical technology and digitalization, including AI, into palliative care. From 2019–2023 he was President of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC).